It was on the afternoon of September 17, 2020, when we held our first meeting of Coffee with Paulo Freire from The Global Education – Rede Pró-Educar. Especially with the challenge of it being online. Very happy to join this Network, with the loving participation of Liana Borges and Oscar Jara inspired us to engage in mobilizations to guarantee the legacy of Paulo Freire, Patron of Brazilian Education, that we had conquered in the last decades. In the 21st century, the attacks on education in Brazil were amplified and considerably worsened by big setbacks being set up.

It is essential to think and mobilize in the contextualization and resignification of Paulo Freire’s legacy, his role as Patron of Brazilian Education, who dreamed of a Citizen School, defined by him as a school “of companionship, of community, which lives the tense experience of democracy”. Since the promulgation of the Citizen Constitution of 1988, Brazil has been experiencing a difficult democratic experience and the struggle for an emancipatory education that promotes a culture of respect, fighting for rights and overcoming violence, as well as support for all the struggles of the countryside and the city in their different dimensions and diversity.